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Nietzsche's Philosophy

(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...

Nietzsche's Philosophy and Essays

that is good. The sun is going down, and it is cold, so that is bad. Evil is something much worse than bad. Obviously, a setting s...

Comparison of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton

God had created an idyllic paradise for man, and it was only when a winged Satan invaded the peaceful calm and inflicted his exist...

Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards

on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of ob...

Epictetus and Aquinas on Nature, the Universe, and God

needs of the spirit, which were outlined through divine law (Pierce, 2002). The law of nature, Epictetus believed, was that the be...

Twentieth Century Literature and Gender

and large, the wealthy is a class of leisure. This upper class mentality is expressed in Whartons (2000) House of Mirth. The nov...

Rene Descartes on God

there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...

Neusner's Introduction to Judaism

job it is to perform certain sacred rituals, whereas in Judaism, the rabbi has no authority to perform rituals. Instead, Rabbis ar...

The Cultures of Ancient China and Greece

gods in the form of logic, reasoning and wisdom (Chung, 2002). Homers work placed gods in a position that was superior to man. In...

Existence of God Proven by the Argument from Design

the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to...

Gardens of Versailles Art History Examination

itself" (Covington, 2001, p. 90). The gardens mirrored the "air of grandeur" that French royalty itself sought to embody (De Nolh...

Summarizing Harold S. Kushner's 'When Bad Things Happen to Good People'

find faith during their times of troubles (Kushner, 1981; Muder, 2002). In the Introduction to the book "Why I Wrote This Book" K...

Literature and Cultural Stereotypes

throughout the text. In presenting another way of examining these perspectives, we present the words of Drucker who states that...

Independence in 3 Works of Literature

his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 2). Women - wives, rather -...

Nicaean Creed & Trinitarian Doctrine

A 15 page research paper that examines documents associated with the early Christian Church, such as "The Nicene Creed," as well ...

The Gods of the Iliad and the Bhagavad-Gita

without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...

On Loving God By Bernard Of Clairvaux

loving God for our own sakes but then, we are able to love God for Himself. Question: Does Bernards work support the notion that...

Personal Vision Of Leadership

The transformational leader is one who creates a vision and a challenge for employees (Bryant, 2003). Burns, who initially postula...

Belief in the Gods and Plato's Practice of Open Inquiry

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

Should The Church Be Marginal To Society

of England. If something that catastrophic were to happen today, would the Prime Minister respond to save the church? One can onl...

God and Sin

God says, "Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil" and then "sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to til...

Jesus & Worship, Romans 12, Etc.

Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...

Herodotus and Ancient Leaders

of the Persian Empire" (Herodotus, 2006). Herodotus begins his story with "an account of the first western monarch to enter into c...

God Vs. Evil

itself confirms those evils. Mark refers, of course, not only to the goodness of God but also the many evils which exist in our w...

Culture and Humanity: Things Fall Apart and The Gods Must Be Crazy

that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...

Islamic Beliefs and the Five Pillars of Wisdom

he refused Gods command to bow down to Adam" (Horn, 2004). This is slightly different from Christian theology, which maintains tha...

Psalm 54 Exegesis

verse is the Vow of Praise: "I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O LORD, for it is good" (v 6). ...

Comparing Christianity and Buddhism

of the Divine somewhat differently than do Christians, as while they believe in a variety of "celestial realms," which includes be...

Biblical Stance Toward Food Production

This research paper begins by relating the topic of food production to Exodus 16 and 17, i.e., the narratives associated with the ...

Rene Descartes and the "Evil Demon" Argument

do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...